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...Present Protestants. Rather spryly, once he was in St. Peter's, Pope John climbed to. his throne under Bernini's baldacchino-"beside St. Peter's tomb," as he noted in the speech that he made after the opening religious rites. In careful Latin, he explained to the bishops the purpose of the council...
...omission, we express the normal desire of a labor paper to give an identity to the thousands of building tradesmen who helped make all this splendor possible. Perhaps these men will someday be forgotten like the faceless helots who built the awesome pyramids of Egypt, the beehive tomb at Mycenae, the Temple of Apollo at Baalbek, the Great Wall of China, those slaves of inscrutable tyrannies who toiled without recompense...
...Medikaiser,'' as insiders now call it. is the nation's largest nongovernmental, womb-to-tomb program for prepaid health and hospital care. Since World War II it has grown to a grand total of 911.001 members, representing about 337,000 subscribers and their families. Contrary to widespread belief, employees of Tycoon Henry J. Kaiser and his gangling industrial empire make up only 5% of Medikaiser's subscribers...
Independents are being squeezed badly. Says Pittsburgh Independent Thomas B. Tomb: "I spend most of my time driving up and down the streets looking over my competitors' prices. One day this week I changed my price twice in two hours." Sometimes the price switches seem mysteriously coincidental; an Indianapolis price war ended just before the 500-mile Memorial Day auto race, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors to the city...
...public reception atop Lenin's Tomb in Red Square, six-year-old pig-tailed Natasha Popovich stood at her father's side and happily waved at the 80,000 people jammed in the square below. Then it was time for speeches; sure enough, the Russians could not resist the chance to turn space prowess into political profit. "The group flight in outer space is one more vivid proof of the superiority of socialism over capitalism," said Nikolayev, or "Falcon," as he called himself during his globe-circling orbits. Added Popovich. whose orbital name was "Golden Eagle": "Across...